Mucko

You get 1/2 your DNA from your mother and 1/2 from your father, right? Therefore, Jesus had to get 1/2 of his DNA from God. Did God fertilize Mary's egg with his sperm?

Peter Kirby

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Peter Kirby

Secular Pinoy

I'd choose ~~ElseWhere~~, but then again, I'm pretty despotic as a leader. Good thing I never aspire to be a moderator (nor would anyone in their right minds make me one).

God did no such thing (for imaginary things are incapable of such acts), Mary was raped by a Roman soldier named Pandera (see Sepher Toldoth Yeshua). Or maybe Matt 1:25 is wrong and Joseph knew Mary way before Jesus was born. Or maybe Mary was a temple harlot like what Tamar did (Genesis 38:13-18), and like Tamar, was impreganted by her client.

Doctor X

I blame society. . . .

These sort of discussions are "fun" to a point.

If one wants to take this to a "logical" extent, fresh bases are provided by mum as the spud grows--so the "amount" of DNA that is "divine" decreases with each cell division.

Now, how many have we cramped on that pinhead?

--J.D.

abe smith

My now-7-or-better year-old one-page paper , title *Congratulations He's A Girl" asserts that IF RomanCatholic dogma (It's in the Creed.) were true, that Jesus never had a human Father = that Jesus was born of a never-impregnated virgin Mother,
then Jesus DID NOT have a human Y = MALE chromosome (which human beings can receive only from a human male Father) and that therefore Jesus has to have been a FEMALE. (Mark it.)
I've not been able so-far to provoke any response about this from any RC priest nor theologian; the argument is probably unanswerable & therefore too hot to handle. The alleged Virgin Conception & Birth of Their Lord has been off limits for a very long time (centuries?) as a non-discussable "Mystery" = beyond human understanding. "Heretics" have died for questioning it.

Of course the alleged "God", who is a non-material Spirit, does not have human DNA, nor produce Y-chromosome-bearing spermatozoa. If "He" impregnated the allegedly-ever-virgin Mary by means of some sort of TRICK, His doing-that was *cheating*; hence Jesus's death for atonement of Adam's (and allegedly "our") Original Sin could not have worked, because, if Jesus was a tricky artefact, he wasn't human; and therefore was not qualified to fill the position, accoding to Catholicism's *man-made* Rules about how all-that had to be done. = All a bunch of man-made fictions.

BioBeing

Hi abe - I remember this one!

Jesus Heterozygous Christ.

Of course, magus55 will tell you that God just made the extra chromosomes... (he did do just that in another thread just the other day).

openeyes

This is one of those cases where being an atheist feels so light and free as opposed to a Christian who believes in the virgin birth of Jesus. I mean, how does one explain to the kiddies who are studying genetics how Jesus managed to be? It's just mind boggling to have to try to come up with scenarios to explain it. It's so much easier to conclude that IT JUST DIDN'T HAPPEN!

WWSD

Parthenogenesis is more common among the Hymenoptera than any other order of animals.

Therefore, Jesus was actually a wasp.

Ennazus

I just watched another "Who's my baby's Daddy" episode of the Jenny Jones show. All of the fathers identified DID have DNA.

Maybe God will decide to have another son someday and the mama will go to Jenny Jones, Ricky Lake or Maury Povich for DNA testing. Then we'll have our answer about 1/2 human 1/2 deity DNA..

food

the question does and doesn't assume materialism.

the question assumes God exists (non-materialism), but also assumes that Jesus must be all material (materialism).

contradiction, anyone?